ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS FOR PRENATAL PATIENTS - CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS

A longstanding impediment to successful medical computing is resistanc e on the part of physicians. Interaction with many medical computing s ystems is difficult, requiring the physician to spend valuable time an d energy trying to figure out how to get the machine to do what needs to be done. In developing encounter forms for use in prenatal medical records, zee confronted the challenges involved in designing a computi ng system that provides an intuitive and physician-friendly method of recording clinical data. In trying to meet those challenges, toe also learned about how to evaluate a medical computing system for flexibili ty and ease of use.